Tag Archives: toll

The Toll Collector and the Red Cow

Posted on November 18, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

A bit busy this week to be honest, but I’ve had this pair of enquiries in for a week now, so I thought that this would be an opportune moment to throw them out to the audience both have come in via Facecebook.
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Toll grate?

Posted on October 10, 2012 by BrownhillsBob

David Hodgkinson has been in touch regarding my appeal for information regarding the protests and planning process regarding the M6 Toll, which was known back then as the BNRR – Birmingham Northern Relief Road. David says he's loads of clippings … Continue reading →

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Road pricing – eighteenth century style

Posted on June 5, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

Following the interest by reader David Evans, top commenter and part-time whittler, I have acquired through the generous and covert use of a photocopier, a fine, nearly lost work on the toll roads and of Walsall. Sadly, this doesn’t cover … Continue reading →

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